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Quit smoking

okiedokie said:
get the book "the easy wasy to stop smoking" by allen carr. written over 30 years ago. i was a long time smoker and didn't think i could quit but i'm on 8 months now and can't see myself smoking again. nicotine addition is not as strong and they want you to think because products wouldn't sell very well. the book walks you thru why you smoke and how silly it really is. the book is at amazon, i checked mine out at the local library. the book tells you to keep smoking while you read the book so i read it real slow. no patches, gum, drugs to quit, you just have to WANT to. the desire to smoke a cigarette last from 15 to 30 seconds normally so knowing that helped me thru the first week and now i very seldom think of cigarettes. my time to quit was when i ran out of them, i had to not have any handy around the house. give the book a try if you REALLY want to quit and its free if you check it out of the library. the book has a 80 to 90% success rate, so they say, it worked with me and i was hard headed devout smoker.
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going on 10 months now and haven't smoked or really had the desire.
 
okiedokie said:
get the book "the easy wasy to stop smoking" by allen carr. written over 30 years ago. i was a long time smoker and didn't think i could quit but i'm on 8 months now and can't see myself smoking again. nicotine addition is not as strong and they want you to think because products wouldn't sell very well. the book walks you thru why you smoke and how silly it really is. the book is at amazon, i checked mine out at the local library. the book tells you to keep smoking while you read the book so i read it real slow. no patches, gum, drugs to quit, you just have to WANT to. the desire to smoke a cigarette last from 15 to 30 seconds normally so knowing that helped me thru the first week and now i very seldom think of cigarettes. my time to quit was when i ran out of them, i had to not have any handy around the house. give the book a try if you REALLY want to quit and its free if you check it out of the library. the book has a 80 to 90% success rate, so they say, it worked with me and i was hard headed devout smoker.
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Nicotine and crack are equally physically addictive.
 
I was just thinking about posting. It's been over a month now and...... Drum Roll Please. still not smoking. I would love to and i love second hand smoke. I am still nasty and kinda nervous but at least i'll have a head start on all those quitters in a few days.
 
I'm a bit past month three. Not having very much difficulty.
 
I actually had a dream about cheating and having a butt last night. It was awesome.
 
I quit on New Year's Eve four years ago and just started back up recently. So.....tomorrow is New Year's Eve again. Time to throw away whatever is left in the pack, all the matches, lighters and ashtrays and drop this fuckin' habit! :grrr:
 
ComNavFdgPk said:
I quit on New Year's Eve four years ago and just started back up recently. So.....tomorrow is New Year's Eve again. Time to throw away whatever is left in the pack, all the matches, lighters and ashtrays and drop this fuckin' habit! :grrr:
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Good for you..| There is lots of room on the wagon. Especially now that we kicked of all the sober guys.
 
Jan 3rd and nothing. I would have thought people would be posting in the new year!

Roll Call, please
 
jackry said:
Jan 3rd and nothing. I would have thought people would be posting in the new year!

Roll Call, please
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Day 12 for me!!! And just to make it more enticing, I'm putting the $5 I would spend every day on a pack of cigarettes into a separate bank account. That comes out to about $150/month. If I hang in there, that's $1,800 at the end of the year! Wonder what the price of a new flat screen TV will be at the end of the year? (!)
 
You go fuge paker. Hang in there. I know if your still in it's like 100x harder but it it is worth it.
 
As someone who has made the decision to finally stop smoking - the first thing you need to do is to really want to stop. I said I was going to stop tons of times, but I really did not want to, until now. I am making a conscious effort to reduce the number of cigarettes I smoke every day. I applaud you for stopping before you really get started smoking. I was up to almost 2 packs a day at one time. But again, you NEED TO MAKE THE DECISION TO ACTUALLY STOP SMOKING - if you are only saying it but not meaning it, you will never stop.
 
biguy732 said:
As someone who has made the decision to finally stop smoking - the first thing you need to do is to really want to stop. I said I was going to stop tons of times, but I really did not want to, until now. I am making a conscious effort to reduce the number of cigarettes I smoke every day. I applaud you for stopping before you really get started smoking. I was up to almost 2 packs a day at one time. But again, you NEED TO MAKE THE DECISION TO ACTUALLY STOP SMOKING - if you are only saying it but not meaning it, you will never stop.
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And the other thing that is helping me is that in New Jersey you cannot smoke in bars or restaurants which makes it easier when you go out to not smoke.
 
So I figured I'd dig up this old thread instead of creating a seperate one that would only cover the gist of what THIS thread was originally created to do: quit smoking. Having said that, here's my update thus far....

So its been nearly 9 months since my first post on this thread declaring my desire to quit, and I'm going to be 100% honest with you... I have not done so. At first it was a little cheat here and there, whether it be while I was drinking or stress from school would hit, I'd bum one from a friend and have one, and then move on in life...go for weeks without one and then have a cig, etc etc...you get how the cycle went. So anywho I guess my heart wasn't 100% into the whole quittin thing, but mostly the appeal of saving so much money and everything was more important than my health benefits would from quitting. I guess I'm rambling a bit here...anyways,

So yea, I've fallen back into horrible old habits, and am back to about a pack every 2 days. I don't know WHAT exactly brought it out of me, sure I can make a ton of excuses...worrying about paying for school, school work itself, working two jobs, breaking up with a bf, etc etc...But I know thats not acceptable. I can't figure out WHY i've been driven back to smoking, but anyways to get MORE to the point of why I'm posting, here we go:

So yesterday after being back home all summer working and saving up some money, I moved back to the town where I go to school, about 2 hours away from home. Anyways, on the way back down here, my mom follows me to help me unload and unpack some things for my room. So during the trip she somehow figured out I smoked, something neither her nor my father knew, and wasn't ever planning on telling them because I figured this would be a part of my wild and young days, once I graduate, I'd give it up for good. So yes she found out and told my Dad, who yall really have to know, but picture him being the most stereotypical southern man alive: a biggot, stubborn, ignorant, control freak, and scared of change. I fear this man, anyways. The best part of this story, is HOW they found out. My sister sold me out to them. My freakin sister, the ONE person on this Earth I feel i can trust more than any other..sells me out to my parents. The rents go on to tell me that if I don't quit, they will cut off they;re help with school, take away everything they pay for for me (i.e. vehicle, cell phone, etc) and make me come home and either go to school there or work. Which I will say ain't happening.

To get to my main concern, i guess I'm stuck with the decision to quit. I know its harder to quit something if your heart isnt in it 100%, which is true, I'm not into it simply because im being told to quit and blackmailed into it rather than it being a personal choice. My thing is, I need to know how to quit like never before, I've heard gradually comin off of it, like weening, is the best medicine, but I'm not sure...any suggestions, thoughts, or anything?
 
Ask your parents to help you find and pay for a smoking cessation program. This would probably change their attitude from making it a battle to making it to where they are more supportive and interested in helping you quit.
 
If you're back to 2 packs a day (and I did 2+ when I quit) I don't know how you can AFFORD to smoke....... :confused:
MY habit would be costing me about $11 a DAY now........... ](*,)](*,)
 
ariesstar89 said:
So I figured I'd dig up this old thread instead of creating a seperate one that would only cover the gist of what THIS thread was originally created to do: quit smoking. Having said that, here's my update thus far....

So its been nearly 9 months since my first post on this thread declaring my desire to quit, and I'm going to be 100% honest with you... I have not done so. At first it was a little cheat here and there, whether it be while I was drinking or stress from school would hit, I'd bum one from a friend and have one, and then move on in life...go for weeks without one and then have a cig, etc etc...you get how the cycle went. So anywho I guess my heart wasn't 100% into the whole quittin thing, but mostly the appeal of saving so much money and everything was more important than my health benefits would from quitting. I guess I'm rambling a bit here...anyways,

So yea, I've fallen back into horrible old habits, and am back to about a pack every 2 days. I don't know WHAT exactly brought it out of me, sure I can make a ton of excuses...worrying about paying for school, school work itself, working two jobs, breaking up with a bf, etc etc...But I know thats not acceptable. I can't figure out WHY i've been driven back to smoking, but anyways to get MORE to the point of why I'm posting, here we go:

So yesterday after being back home all summer working and saving up some money, I moved back to the town where I go to school, about 2 hours away from home. Anyways, on the way back down here, my mom follows me to help me unload and unpack some things for my room. So during the trip she somehow figured out I smoked, something neither her nor my father knew, and wasn't ever planning on telling them because I figured this would be a part of my wild and young days, once I graduate, I'd give it up for good. So yes she found out and told my Dad, who yall really have to know, but picture him being the most stereotypical southern man alive: a biggot, stubborn, ignorant, control freak, and scared of change. I fear this man, anyways. The best part of this story, is HOW they found out. My sister sold me out to them. My freakin sister, the ONE person on this Earth I feel i can trust more than any other..sells me out to my parents. The rents go on to tell me that if I don't quit, they will cut off they;re help with school, take away everything they pay for for me (i.e. vehicle, cell phone, etc) and make me come home and either go to school there or work. Which I will say ain't happening.

To get to my main concern, i guess I'm stuck with the decision to quit. I know its harder to quit something if your heart isnt in it 100%, which is true, I'm not into it simply because im being told to quit and blackmailed into it rather than it being a personal choice. My thing is, I need to know how to quit like never before, I've heard gradually comin off of it, like weening, is the best medicine, but I'm not sure...any suggestions, thoughts, or anything?
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i have stated in this forum before that i quit by reading a book called 'the easy way to stop smoking' by alan carr, you can get the book at amazon, i checked mine out of the library. i quit without drugs, patches or any other device. the book simply explains how silly smoking is and your not phyically addicted to nicotine as much as you think. i smoked off and on for 30 years, i quit 18 months ago and never think about smoking again. if you truly want to quit and quit playing mind games with yourself, this book works.
 
My thing is this KaraBulut, its not that I want to quit at this point...its almost a thing where, I want to keep at it just surely out of defiance based on the fact that they are makin me quit and blackmailin me out of it. Immature I know, but just saying...

When I decide to quit for good or whatever, I want it to be my own decision, and not a choice made by someone else.
 
My last smoke was at 1.35pm on July 1st 2009 just before I was admitted to hospital for a quadruple heart bypass. no urges, no pills and no patches needed.
 
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